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believed to originate from the moon, for later use as a reference material.
[Wikipedia, August 8, 2007 Entry on Wayback Machine Archives]

This same statement can be found at the website of the New World Encyclopedia under their entry
on Wernher Von Braun.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Wernher_von_Braun

Here is how the Wikipedia article appears today. Note that all reference to a systematic search for
meteorites has been scrubbed from the article.

During the local summer of 1966–67, von Braun participated in a field trip to Antarctica, organized
for him and several other members of top NASA management. The goal of the field trip was to
determine whether the experience gained by US scientific and technological community during the
exploration of Antarctic wastelands would be useful for the manned exploration of space.
[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun]

The only source referenced in the Wikipedia article is a May 1967 magazine article in Popular
Science. The article is titled A Space Man’s Look at Antarctica, written by Wernher Von Braun. This
article which relates the trip of a handful of NASA top administrators to Antarctica can be viewed
at no cost in the Popular Science archives.

This article lists a number of goals for the trip taken by the NASA administrators. Among the goals
listed are the following. To determine if Antarctica could be used as a suitable testing and training
ground for Moon, Mars, and other space explorations. To determine if it would be a suitable location
to test surface vehicles such as the Lunar Rover. To determine if it would be suitable for testing of
drills and sample collection. To verify whether Antarctica would be suitable for testing of astronaut
space suits, etc..

It should be noted that NASA did not perform any testing or training of Apollo astronauts in
Antarctica, and it is an anomaly for these top NASA managers to set aside their very important and
time sensitive projects to make what was an unfruitful, expensive, fact-finding trip to the South Pole.
Those who made the trip along with Dr. Wernher Von Braun were Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of
the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Dr. Maxime Faget, Houston’s Director of Engineering
and Development, and Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, head of the Research Project Laboratory at the Marshall
Space Flight Center.